Ok, let me come clean right from the start. I was not enthused about going to see Shrek the Musical. I loved the film, who didn’t? I was however, not clear on how you could transform the great story and the brilliance of Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy to the stage. Not to mention I knew the hall would be filled with kids. Don’t get me wrong, I love kids, but that is probably because I have none.

We have old articles going back several years that we will be removing from the servers. As old files are removed, there are articles, reviews and other content that we wish to become part of our archives and remain viewable on the web for many years to come in a new cleaner format. It's an honor to create a compilation of original short movie reviews written specifically for Twit Magazine by our beloved Duane Simolke. Besides writing reviews for This Week in Texas, Duane has written the books The Acorn Stories, Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure, Holding Me Together, and New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio. He also edited and co-wrote the spin-off The Acorn Gathering, a fund-raiser for cancer research.

If you have not seen Dreamgirls on stage or at the movies you will need to turn in your gay card immediately. Even if you have not seen the stage or movie version you know the music. Whether you are a Gleek or have been to even just one drag show, you have heard the act one finale “AndI am telling you, I’m not going.”

Wicked, Based on the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire returns to Dallas this week for its’ third run in Five Years. The book a parallel novel to L. Frank Baums’ Oz series of books is the untold story of the Witches of Oz.